The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is something that cannot, and should not, ever be attempted to recreate. It's one of those bizarre mutations that came out of mid-80s Hollywood despite the machinations of mid-80s Hollywood. I love it and I never want it to change.
I remain heartbroken that this didn’t become a series of movies. Glad to hear the nod to Adam Ant (I always felt it). I still think there was a big Doc Savage vibe to the work (I read all the Doc Savage books as a kid). Nobody but Peter Weller could have played the role.
@illuminator777 No beef... I'm the one that upvoted your comment, since it is an absolutely correct observation, albeit a very obvious one. Are you one of the pedantic, easily offended 'guys' that takes any correction as a personal attack? Thanks for the confrontational response, and baiting me to waste 30 seconds on a reply.
AMEN! I would always use the line "No matter where you go, there you are." on my kids for years & they were always like WTF does that mean? Then one day I was watching BB & my son came in & started watching it with me & right before he says that line, I asked my son, remember my golden pearl of wisdom (that's what I called that quote)? He said yes & then BB said it & he went nuts because all this time my "wisdom" was from this movie. Which he really enjoyed BTW.
Buckaroo Banzai is a great great movie. If you get it you will love this movie. If you don't get it then your brain will hurt by the time the movie is over.
John Lithgow absolutely is a Top Tier actor. I’ve never seen him “phone in” a performance. He makes everyone around him better and still shines brightest.
Don't overthink it. Just watch it. Repeatedly. You'll figure it out, without help from anybody. And then you'll know joy better. And you'll deserve it.
Buckaroo Banzai remains to this day one of my favorite movies of all time. I was 8 yrs old when it came out and I am 46 in a month from now. It remains one of the defining movies of my life.
Not only is Peter Weller underrated as a actor, but the dude has a frickin’ PhD (and NOT an honorary one). It’s DOCTOR Peter Weller thank you very much!
Well, you and he may think a PhD is something special, but not one PhD alive is conscious, because I can prove everyone of them is not. Every PhD is afraid of me, because I have proved they have been formed as conscious as Frankenstein- alive with no age. Besides not one PhD can be in a conversation without telling you they have a PhD, it's like saying "i have a big dick, and you don't", and not one PhD has a dick (mind) that can match mine. Do you see any challengers? Well, do you? I will be right here, the only conscious human. Why am I the only conscious human? I am the 2012 Apocalypse, and every PhD allowed their TV to tell them, I did not happen, when I was written to be over 2,000 years ago. Logic begins at Zero, and you weren't, and neither was Peter. I am fact, and I have made fact 8-8-15 that moved Pope Francis to nearby NYC ten days later. Peter is fiction and the best he's moved is his bowels with his lips. I will be right here if Peter ever finds the nerve to face me LIVE. He won't, because PhD's are like JEWS, and all Jews are cowards. Check Twitter a few months before William Shatner donned a space suit to pretend to go into space when we are under a Dome, because I proved to him I am the 1st space traveler, the 1st man outside our Dome, and that JEW blocked me and his ego made itself prove to himself, that I was wrong. Shatner fears me like the plague- all JEWS do, because I prove JEWS are DEMONS, because no Jew has a right to call me anti-anything. The fact they think they can, makes them DEMONIC. I will be right here Jew. I will be right here PhD. I am fact and in my presence you are fiction.
This movie is in my Scifi collection of DVDs and gets a regular watch from me. I love movies that don't take themselves seriously and this certainly fits that description.
I LOVE this movie! I've been quoting it for years and most people don't get it . When they do, it's a weird bond. Wherever you go, there you are, It's not my planet, monkeyboy! And I still have a serious crush on Peter Weller, as anyone of taste would.😘
I had a guy waiting by my truck one day at Walgreen's and I thought he smashed into it but he just wanted to say he though Buckaroo was the best movie ever. I have a vinyl cutout with the Dr saying "Laugh while you can monkey boy" on my vent window.
I saw Mr. Weller introduce the movie at a screening. He said Rauch had a bible like 3 inches thick about BB, and he said he skipped that and went with "Adam Ant". The original novelization is fantastic, btw - it's like reading Book 22 of the series, with footnotes referencing other adventures, it explains the watermelon, and more.
He’s not only an impressive actor and director, he has a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art History. I loved Buckaroo and was disappointed when they didn’t make a sequel.
One of my all-time favorite films. Dr. Buckaroo Banzai was more than a great character, he was an inspiration. I always wished I could be a "Blue Blazer regular."
Buckaroo Banzai is my 2nd favorite all-time movie behind only the incomparable Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Great cast, great writing, great music, funny little details in all the sets, and just hilarious. I saw it twice in the theater and I've bought it on both VHS and DVD as time has moved on. Truly, this is a great movie and I hope it picks up a new generation of fans :)
There isn't a single frame of Buckaroo Banzai that I don't positively adore. I must've seen it 30 times and it never loses its charm. I only wish they would've made a sequel!
I so love this movie. I didn’t get to see it in a theater (poor me) but I have seen it every time I am able to find it on the TV. I was a big fan of the Doc Savage series of novels in my early and mid-teens and somehow this movie seemed to plug right in to that. Doc Savage (genius, perfect physical specimen - nearly superhuman, world class surgeon, scientist, on-and-on) and his group of five (?) associates - each an expert in a different field, all adventurers and evil-fighters. Buckaroo Bonzai was not exactly the same as Doc Savage, but was brilliant and Uber-talented in his own way, and surrounded by his own group of devoted good-doers. How I so expected to be treated to not one but several sequels. Dang it!
Buckaroo Banzai is hands down one of the most entertaining and incredible movies ever made. That it got made at all is amazing, it never would today. I've watched it at least a dozen times and never tire of it. How many movies can you honestly say that about? And it has some of the most classic quotes since Casablanca with of course the best being "don't be mean, we don't have to be mean, because remember, no matter where you go...there you are". I've seen the entire quote, and more often the last eight words, repeated in various places all over the world. And how many movies can you say that about too? I don't care what other movies or tv shows he's been in, or that he has a PhD and taught college courses in real life, to me Peter Weller will first and foremost always be Buckaroo Banzai.
I love this movie! The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is extremely underrated. It doesn’t get nearly enough love and attention! Also, I can totally see Adam Ant in Buckaroo’s character now that Peter Weller explained where he got the inspiration from. Wry cool indeed. 👍🏻😎
I got to see Buckaroo Banzai in the theater as a kid. I loved it, though there were parts I couldn't quite follow. There was just so much to it. After reading the Marvel Comics adaptation and seeing it a couple more times on VHS I finally got it, and that's when I became a true fanatic (and collector of books, memorabilia, and doesn't versions of the movie). Several years ago, a good friend and fellow Blue Blaze Irregular once gave me an original Team Banzai promotional headband from just before the movie hit theaters. I had to fight back tears. When I got a 3D printer, I made him an oscillation overthruster.
Years ago, when I found the VHS of this film at a local discount store I almost wept! Still one of the few movies I know by heart and can quote whole scenes from...
I never felt so betrayed after leaving the theatre where they put at the end "Buckaroo Banzai will return in..." and...nothing happened. I loved this movie.
Peter Weller, thanks for one of the most memorable movies of all time. I’ve seen Buckaroo Banzai at least a dozen times start to finish. Such a fun time, every time. Signed, John Papwithanhatchet.
Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers always reminded me of Doc Savage and his group of scientific crime fighters. Loved this movie. Always wanted to see him fight the World Crime League.
One of the ways I've heard it described is that it's designed to feel like a middle episode of a larger series that doesn't exist, as if you were to pick up one issue of a comic book you've never heard of.
Lord John Whorfin: "History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark." Lord John Whorfin: "Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life." Even the VILLAINS had awesome quotes! 😎
There was a lot to like in this film. One part, when the evil space ship is preparing for launch, an all systems report came up. "Sir, Vacuum Chamber #3, there's nothing here!" And the background PA system had other gems.
There has never been a film like The Adventures Buckaroo Banzai, it's like a tootsie roll of all your favorite, weird, bizarre, fun, funny, witty, nerdy fantastical flavors all rolled up in one. I'm from the generation of TV Guide and not even that circular could adequately describe what the heck this is 😂 I remember watching this film back in the 1984 and it came on the late late show and I caught it somewhere around 15/20 minutes into and I knew immediately this was going to forever be apart of my life journey and a film I would never forget. Wes Andersen's 'Life Aquatic w Steve Zissou' is chock full of references to this film. The cast was the perfect assemble of wacky wafers right down to the adorable little Scooter Lindley. To this day whenever I watch this film I'm still in child like awe of it. Thanks for the post Chief!
"Buckaroo" is one of my all-time favorite films. I have the novel, the Blu-ray, the comics, a framed mini poster over my computer desk with a Banzai Institute Visitor pass clipped onto it, my 22-song extended soundtrack and a fading T-shirt that I need to needs a replacement. So yeah, I'm a fan. The film is a classic. Totally agree that Lithgow nailed the role of Lizardo perfectly.
I have no less than 5 copies of the movie on DVD, two tshirts, a movie poster, a fridge magnet, several cosplay identification badges, quite a few pins, a copy of the Marvel comic book adaptation and the topper is a YoYodyne Propulsion Systems coffee mug. To this day the movie remains my favorite of all time. I might attend a Comic-con soon and get a pic with Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller). Buckaroo Banzai was my first real action hero even before they were called that. Peter Weller in an interview once said Buckaroo isn't a superhero and is made better by the people he surrounds himself with. Those hard rockin' Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroos most trusted inner circle. Turning 60 this year reminds me that next year the movie celebrates its fortieth anniversary. I even have my eye on an Oscillation Overthruster. Well as of this moment, for my 60th Birthday I now actually own a genuine Oscillation Overthruster. In my opinion the holy grail of prop replicas. Mr. Peter Weller you will always be my favorite actor who in this movie could not place in any one movie genre. No matter where you go, there you are.
Dr. Weller is one of my all-time favorites. I have watched this movie 50+ times (I have it in my VuDu library) and can still come away with small things I had not seen before. Back in the 90s, when I was fresh out of Coast Guard OCS, I reported to my new duty station in Alameda. I found that my new boss had a Ford AeroStar Van with the bumper sticker "No Matter Where You Go, There You Are." We got along great!
I saw it in the theater when it was released in 84. Will never forget it. Saw it at the Fayette Mall in Lexington, Kentucky. I watch it 3 or 4 times a year and now my son loves it as well.
Louisville here! (the late, lamented Showcase Cinemas). I think I got my dad to bring me to two showings. Dad was born in 1939, and had already turned me on to a cassette of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast (I have since performed it as an actor in a staged reading, which is on CZcams). My only memory of dad's reaction was "The drummer has an UZI!!!!"
I wanted to see it but my gf at the time insisted on seeing Dreamscape (she loved Dennis Quaid lol). A couple of weeks later BB had already been pulled from the local theater and I had to wait for the video release. Needless to say we rented it and loved it, but to this day I wish I had seen it on the big screen.
@@chiefscheider I worked in a "2nd run" theater that brought it back quite a few times. such a classic- good reminder to watch it again, it's been quite a few years
Wow, listening to him talk about this is amazing. There is so much depth to what he is saying. It is light years beyond the normal drivel you get out of a lot of current actors who are nothing more that talking heads. How many people go on to get PhDs in renaissance art later in life like he did?
I remember seeing it with some close friends at a time we were all kind of the weird ones who ended up in our own friend group because no one else would have us, and we all understood (to some degree) the film. I also remember several scenes in which the theater audience -- and the place was packed -- was cheering loudly in reaction to what they saw onscreen. VERY few films ever fit into either of those categories.. :-)
This isn't enough for me. I need to hear the complete interview. I love Peter Weller and could listen to him talk for days. I really wish I could get my hands on some authentic Buckaroo Banzai material. This movie deserved and deserves a sequel, or something.
Weller is so underrated.
He'd tell you so himself.
I love him in Naked Lunch. His deadpan interactions with his hallucinations are magnificent
Even loved him in Screamers.
He was ALMOST the lead in BASIC INSTINCT
Massively underrated.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is something that cannot, and should not, ever be attempted to recreate. It's one of those bizarre mutations that came out of mid-80s Hollywood despite the machinations of mid-80s Hollywood. I love it and I never want it to change.
Well said. A beautiful monster that gets better and better.
Amen, brethren!
I remain heartbroken that this didn’t become a series of movies. Glad to hear the nod to Adam Ant (I always felt it). I still think there was a big Doc Savage vibe to the work (I read all the Doc Savage books as a kid). Nobody but Peter Weller could have played the role.
Yea, it was sort of a Doc Savage for the 1980s. Great movie that should have been a series.
Weller actually holds a PhD in Italian Renaissance art history. One of the few celebrities that holds a real PhD, not an honorary degree.
I remember him on history channel doing documentaries about European history.
I would say one of the only ones Worthy of holding a PHD.
I've met tons of "real" ones that were still absolute morons.
@@Rensune True. A college education doesn't mean you are intelligent or functional.
@illuminator777 It's true, that the statement should have been qualified with 'necessarily'... but you know exactly what they meant.
@illuminator777 No beef... I'm the one that upvoted your comment, since it is an absolutely correct observation, albeit a very obvious one. Are you one of the pedantic, easily offended 'guys' that takes any correction as a personal attack? Thanks for the confrontational response, and baiting me to waste 30 seconds on a reply.
Guilty pleasure? Hell no. I sincerely and unironically love Buckaroo Banzai.
AMEN! I would always use the line "No matter where you go, there you are." on my kids for years & they were always like WTF does that mean? Then one day I was watching BB & my son came in & started watching it with me & right before he says that line, I asked my son, remember my golden pearl of wisdom (that's what I called that quote)? He said yes & then BB said it & he went nuts because all this time my "wisdom" was from this movie. Which he really enjoyed BTW.
@@jimapplebee5322 I have a similar story, but I was the son.
Buckaroo Banzai is a great great movie. If you get it you will love this movie. If you don't get it then your brain will hurt by the time the movie is over.
John Lithgow absolutely is a Top Tier actor. I’ve never seen him “phone in” a performance. He makes everyone around him better and still shines brightest.
He was brillant in this.
Don't overthink it. Just watch it. Repeatedly. You'll figure it out, without help from anybody. And then you'll know joy better. And you'll deserve it.
The one thing Buckaroo Banzai does really really well is make me wish there was more Buckaroo Banzai movies out there.
The comic books were quite good.
Not going to lie, I’m still waiting for the sequel…
Buckaroo Banzai remains to this day one of my favorite movies of all time. I was 8 yrs old when it came out and I am 46 in a month from now. It remains one of the defining movies of my life.
It’s a movie that, when it’s over you say both “ What the hell did I just watch?” & “I can’t wait to see it again!”
It’s got an amazing cast too.
Not only is Peter Weller underrated as a actor, but the dude has a frickin’ PhD (and NOT an honorary one). It’s DOCTOR Peter Weller thank you very much!
Well, you and he may think a PhD is something special, but not one PhD alive is conscious, because I can prove everyone of them is not. Every PhD is afraid of me, because I have proved they have been formed as conscious as Frankenstein- alive with no age. Besides not one PhD can be in a conversation without telling you they have a PhD, it's like saying "i have a big dick, and you don't", and not one PhD has a dick (mind) that can match mine. Do you see any challengers? Well, do you? I will be right here, the only conscious human. Why am I the only conscious human? I am the 2012 Apocalypse, and every PhD allowed their TV to tell them, I did not happen, when I was written to be over 2,000 years ago. Logic begins at Zero, and you weren't, and neither was Peter. I am fact, and I have made fact 8-8-15 that moved Pope Francis to nearby NYC ten days later. Peter is fiction and the best he's moved is his bowels with his lips. I will be right here if Peter ever finds the nerve to face me LIVE. He won't, because PhD's are like JEWS, and all Jews are cowards. Check Twitter a few months before William Shatner donned a space suit to pretend to go into space when we are under a Dome, because I proved to him I am the 1st space traveler, the 1st man outside our Dome, and that JEW blocked me and his ego made itself prove to himself, that I was wrong. Shatner fears me like the plague- all JEWS do, because I prove JEWS are DEMONS, because no Jew has a right to call me anti-anything. The fact they think they can, makes them DEMONIC. I will be right here Jew. I will be right here PhD. I am fact and in my presence you are fiction.
@@markjaycox8811 take your meds buddy, and Jesus Christ is a Jew
This movie is in my Scifi collection of DVDs and gets a regular watch from me. I love movies that don't take themselves seriously and this certainly fits that description.
I LOVE this movie! I've been quoting it for years and most people don't get it . When they do, it's a weird bond. Wherever you go, there you are, It's not my planet, monkeyboy! And I still have a serious crush on Peter Weller, as anyone of taste would.😘
I had a guy waiting by my truck one day at Walgreen's and I thought he smashed into it but he just wanted to say he though Buckaroo was the best movie ever. I have a vinyl cutout with the Dr saying "Laugh while you can monkey boy" on my vent window.
"MonkeyBoy" is still my favorite insult.
no matter where ya go.....there ya are...... i still use that today !!!
This quote is on the Star Trek Enterprise D's Plaque on the bridge.
@@bakersnuts100 ....no waaay
Buckaroo was so far ahead of its time that I'm not sure we've reached that time yet.
As an Adam Ant and Buckaroo Banzai fan at the same time in the 80s, it makes sense now.
I saw Mr. Weller introduce the movie at a screening. He said Rauch had a bible like 3 inches thick about BB, and he said he skipped that and went with "Adam Ant". The original novelization is fantastic, btw - it's like reading Book 22 of the series, with footnotes referencing other adventures, it explains the watermelon, and more.
He’s not only an impressive actor and director, he has a PhD in Italian Renaissance Art History. I loved Buckaroo and was disappointed when they didn’t make a sequel.
I legit was stoked for the Against the World Crime League sequel
I lost my oscillation overthruster and I haven't been the same since.
When he said Adam Ant was an inspiration for Buckaroo I was immediately like,”yes!” It’s so clear now that he says it!
I've watched the movie at least once a year, since I was 10. The next time I watch it, I'll be 50.
" No matter where you go .... there you are " ... Based my Life on this
I loved this movie. So few people even know about it now.
I'd looked at Buckaroo as a modern day Doc Savage back then. Loved this movie long time.
The shortest description for this movie: functional chaos that accidentally found purpose.
A girl named John?
The Buckaroo Banzai end theme by Michael Boddicker is still one of my favorite 80s movie theme!
One of my all-time favorite films. Dr. Buckaroo Banzai was more than a great character, he was an inspiration. I always wished I could be a "Blue Blazer regular."
"Remember, no matter where you go... there you are."
{S APPLAUSE}
the most underrated hero flick of the 80's . I love Buckaroo always have always will!
This movie is wildly underrated.
Buckaroo Banzai is my 2nd favorite all-time movie behind only the incomparable Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Great cast, great writing, great music, funny little details in all the sets, and just hilarious. I saw it twice in the theater and I've bought it on both VHS and DVD as time has moved on. Truly, this is a great movie and I hope it picks up a new generation of fans :)
It is a true shame there was never a follow up or sequel 😩
An absolute classic with some of the best lines ever.
There isn't a single frame of Buckaroo Banzai that I don't positively adore. I must've seen it 30 times and it never loses its charm. I only wish they would've made a sequel!
There needed to be a sequel
Please don't give them any ideas, we'll end up with crapfest
I wish there had been more Buckaroo movies
In a few year A.I. can spit a few out for ya.
I almost consider Big Trouble in Little China a sibling film. A WD Richter script with similarly bonkers elements.
I like that one too, got to meet James Hong once! Nice guy, a bit arrogant...lol@@jmalmsten
I think there may have been early talks but then Peter got "Robocop"
@jmalmsten Richter is one of the most original screenwriters in movie history.
I so love this movie. I didn’t get to see it in a theater (poor me) but I have seen it every time I am able to find it on the TV. I was a big fan of the Doc Savage series of novels in my early and mid-teens and somehow this movie seemed to plug right in to that. Doc Savage (genius, perfect physical specimen - nearly superhuman, world class surgeon, scientist, on-and-on) and his group of five (?) associates - each an expert in a different field, all adventurers and evil-fighters. Buckaroo Bonzai was not exactly the same as Doc Savage, but was brilliant and Uber-talented in his own way, and surrounded by his own group of devoted good-doers. How I so expected to be treated to not one but several sequels. Dang it!
We need to agitate for a theater showing! AMC has been showing cult films all summer….when is it Buckaroo’s turn?
How cool that he modeled part of the character after Adam Ant... never knew that til now, but now it seem obvious
Peter really was perfect for that role. What an incredible performance.
I loved this movie as a kid. So many great one liners and the absurdity of it all was right up my ally.
Buckaroo Banzai is hands down one of the most entertaining and incredible movies ever made. That it got made at all is amazing, it never would today. I've watched it at least a dozen times and never tire of it. How many movies can you honestly say that about? And it has some of the most classic quotes since Casablanca with of course the best being "don't be mean, we don't have to be mean, because remember, no matter where you go...there you are". I've seen the entire quote, and more often the last eight words, repeated in various places all over the world. And how many movies can you say that about too?
I don't care what other movies or tv shows he's been in, or that he has a PhD and taught college courses in real life, to me Peter Weller will first and foremost always be Buckaroo Banzai.
This movie was just so friggin FUN, was a wild ride.
" it would never be made today".
I won't even attempt to think of a "woke" version of this movie.
I wore out 2 VHS copies and 1 DVD. On my 2nd DVD now.
Nobody beats Peter Weller. Buckaroo is a underated classic masterpiece ❤❤😂
Always loved this movie and wished it was better known. Along with Big Trouble in Little China it’s in my life time top movies
I loved this movie when it came out. None of my friends could understand it, but i loved it
I love this movie! The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is extremely underrated. It doesn’t get nearly enough love and attention! Also, I can totally see Adam Ant in Buckaroo’s character now that Peter Weller explained where he got the inspiration from. Wry cool indeed. 👍🏻😎
I got to see Buckaroo Banzai in the theater as a kid. I loved it, though there were parts I couldn't quite follow. There was just so much to it. After reading the Marvel Comics adaptation and seeing it a couple more times on VHS I finally got it, and that's when I became a true fanatic (and collector of books, memorabilia, and doesn't versions of the movie).
Several years ago, a good friend and fellow Blue Blaze Irregular once gave me an original Team Banzai promotional headband from just before the movie hit theaters. I had to fight back tears.
When I got a 3D printer, I made him an oscillation overthruster.
"Hold my overthruster! John Bigbooty, stand by my side" John Lithgow's best work
As to how there was never a second movie is beyond me...
rumor has it that the money was spent on revenge of the nerds 2.
@@poofygoof What the actual fuk....
Years ago, when I found the VHS of this film at a local discount store I almost wept! Still one of the few movies I know by heart and can quote whole scenes from...
And now the blu-ray is almost impossible to get unless you're willing to pay big $$
I never felt so betrayed after leaving the theatre where they put at the end "Buckaroo Banzai will return in..." and...nothing happened. I loved this movie.
They made the sequel of sorts. It just came out recently
Peter Weller, thanks for one of the most memorable movies of all time. I’ve seen Buckaroo Banzai at least a dozen times start to finish. Such a fun time, every time. Signed, John Papwithanhatchet.
Yes!!!!! When I was a little boy in the 80s he was my hero Peter Weller kicked ass I also loved him in robo cop
This is truly a stand-alone, one-of-a-kind film. As Mr. Weller says, "Even I didn't know what is was about." But it's so much fun.
One of my absolute favorite movies and a film you can just tell everyone was having an amazing time making.
I absolutely loved Buckaroo Bonsai and am still waiting for the promised sequel!
Buckaroo Bonsai ... must have been the miniature version.
Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers always reminded me of Doc Savage and his group of scientific crime fighters. Loved this movie. Always wanted to see him fight the World Crime League.
That was the idea. What if Doc Savage was created in the 80's instead of the 30's.
This was one of my top favorite movie growing up. Always wish there was a second movie
One of the greatest and enlightened sci-fi films of all time. Got Peter Weller the gig for “Robocop”. 😎 “no matter where you go, there you are” 😆
One of my fav movies of all time
My Favourite end credits ever.
Tell me you weren’t disappointed when BB Against the World Crime League movie never dropped
ha, i just giggled thinking about the music at the end
One of the ways I've heard it described is that it's designed to feel like a middle episode of a larger series that doesn't exist, as if you were to pick up one issue of a comic book you've never heard of.
Lord John Whorfin: "History is-a made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."
Lord John Whorfin: "Sealed with a curse as sharp as a knife. Doomed is your soul and damned is your life."
Even the VILLAINS had awesome quotes! 😎
sweet
There was a lot to like in this film. One part, when the evil space ship is preparing for launch, an all systems report came up.
"Sir, Vacuum Chamber #3, there's nothing here!"
And the background PA system had other gems.
One of my favorite films of all time.
"No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Bonzai
This is on my Steam Profile page and has been since I started using it ;)
I describe it as part 2 of a trilogy where part one is not explained and part 2 doesn’t exist. Such beautiful world building.
Ah the 80’s, it was a great time to be young then, I had a blast and so glad I got to experience it.
If you're wondering what his PHD is in it's Renaissance art history and he's also an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University.
There has never been a film like The Adventures Buckaroo Banzai, it's like a tootsie roll of all your favorite, weird, bizarre, fun, funny, witty, nerdy fantastical flavors all rolled up in one. I'm from the generation of TV Guide and not even that circular could adequately describe what the heck this is 😂 I remember watching this film back in the 1984 and it came on the late late show and I caught it somewhere around 15/20 minutes into and I knew immediately this was going to forever be apart of my life journey and a film I would never forget. Wes Andersen's 'Life Aquatic w Steve Zissou' is chock full of references to this film. The cast was the perfect assemble of wacky wafers right down to the adorable little Scooter Lindley. To this day whenever I watch this film I'm still in child like awe of it. Thanks for the post Chief!
You're very welcome, t! Happy to hear from another BB fan👍
It was love at first sight for me too. And I cannot help but think of The Firesign Theater everytime I see it. Briliantly irreverent.
"Buckaroo" is one of my all-time favorite films. I have the novel, the Blu-ray, the comics, a framed mini poster over my computer desk with a Banzai Institute Visitor pass clipped onto it, my 22-song extended soundtrack and a fading T-shirt that I need to needs a replacement. So yeah, I'm a fan. The film is a classic. Totally agree that Lithgow nailed the role of Lizardo perfectly.
Buckaroo bonsai is a huge favorite in our family. I still pull up quotes from it. Often.
One of my favorite movies to this day, you nailed the character perfectly.
The Oscillation Overthruster is an underappreciated sci-fi macGuffin
Oscillation Overthruster / Flux Capacitor. Someone copied off somebody's homework 😂
I have no less than 5 copies of the movie on DVD, two tshirts, a movie poster, a fridge magnet, several cosplay identification badges, quite a few pins, a copy of the Marvel comic book adaptation and the topper is a YoYodyne Propulsion Systems coffee mug. To this day the movie remains my favorite of all time. I might attend a Comic-con soon and get a pic with Buckaroo Banzai (Peter Weller). Buckaroo Banzai was my first real action hero even before they were called that. Peter Weller in an interview once said Buckaroo isn't a superhero and is made better by the people he surrounds himself with. Those hard rockin' Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroos most trusted inner circle. Turning 60 this year reminds me that next year the movie celebrates its fortieth anniversary. I even have my eye on an Oscillation Overthruster. Well as of this moment, for my 60th Birthday I now actually own a genuine Oscillation Overthruster. In my opinion the holy grail of prop replicas. Mr. Peter Weller you will always be my favorite actor who in this movie could not place in any one movie genre. No matter where you go, there you are.
A fantastic movie that doesn’t get the respect it deserves
Dr. Weller is one of my all-time favorites. I have watched this movie 50+ times (I have it in my VuDu library) and can still come away with small things I had not seen before.
Back in the 90s, when I was fresh out of Coast Guard OCS, I reported to my new duty station in Alameda. I found that my new boss had a Ford AeroStar Van with the bumper sticker "No Matter Where You Go, There You Are." We got along great!
John Lithgow & Christopher Lloyd are my heroes in this film. Funny doesn't even begin to cover it 😂...
Saw it when it came out. People walked out of it. My friend and i stayed thru the show laughing till the credits. I guess some people don't get it.
I saw it in the theater when it was released in 84. Will never forget it. Saw it at the Fayette Mall in Lexington, Kentucky. I watch it 3 or 4 times a year and now my son loves it as well.
Louisville here! (the late, lamented Showcase Cinemas). I think I got my dad to bring me to two showings. Dad was born in 1939, and had already turned me on to a cassette of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast (I have since performed it as an actor in a staged reading, which is on CZcams). My only memory of dad's reaction was "The drummer has an UZI!!!!"
Such an insightful explanation of the inexplicable. Team Banzai
man i can totally see the Adam Ant influence. also I need that red Mic
saw this movie so many times when it came out - definitely one of my favorites!
I wanted to see it but my gf at the time insisted on seeing Dreamscape (she loved Dennis Quaid lol). A couple of weeks later BB had already been pulled from the local theater and I had to wait for the video release. Needless to say we rented it and loved it, but to this day I wish I had seen it on the big screen.
@@chiefscheider I worked in a "2nd run" theater that brought it back quite a few times. such a classic- good reminder to watch it again, it's been quite a few years
29 years later, I finally found out WTF i watched when I was in the clouds that late Friday night.
When I ask someone to do something, and they say “Why’d you ask me?” my response will always be “because you’re Perfect Tommy.”
Oh yeah.
I love this movie. Saw it in theaters, own two dvd copies. It is not for everyone.
I was 11 years old when I saw this in 1984. I’m now 50, and I STILL love this movie!
One of my favorite movies, it's better than any of these CGI movies nowadays!
No matter where you go...there you are. 😅
Wow, listening to him talk about this is amazing. There is so much depth to what he is saying. It is light years beyond the normal drivel you get out of a lot of current actors who are nothing more that talking heads. How many people go on to get PhDs in renaissance art later in life like he did?
Dead or alive you're coming with me. Man I just love buckaroo bonsai.
Only Dr. Weller could bring Dadaism into a discussion about a movie like that.
I remember seeing it with some close friends at a time we were all kind of the weird ones who ended up in our own friend group because no one else would have us, and we all understood (to some degree) the film. I also remember several scenes in which the theater audience -- and the place was packed -- was cheering loudly in reaction to what they saw onscreen. VERY few films ever fit into either of those categories.. :-)
This isn't enough for me. I need to hear the complete interview. I love Peter Weller and could listen to him talk for days. I really wish I could get my hands on some authentic Buckaroo Banzai material. This movie deserved and deserves a sequel, or something.
Damn, Weller is sharp. He's formidable
One of the Greatest cult classic movies ever!!!
God I love this movie. Blew my mind as a kid when it first came out and continues to do so
That was such a great movie.
What an incredible movie. I just wish there was a sequel. Awesome cast and my kind of twisted humor.
HBO played Buckaroo Banzai back in the mid 80s when i was a kid. I must have watched it every time HBO played it.